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Miss Bethany Shiner

Senior Lecturer in Law

Bethany Shiner

  • School Faculty of Business and Law

  • Department Law and Social Sciences

  • Location London

Research activities

The Right to Freedom of Thought, Public law, the Human Rights Act 1998, military accountability

Edited books

聽(co-edited with Patrick O'Callaghan) (CUP, 2025)

Book chapters

'The right to freedom of thought and the prohibition of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment: Examining the relationship in the case of the coercive and interrogational use of neurotechnology'聽in The Cambridge Handbook of Human Rights for the Mind: Emerging Technologies, Law and Philosophy edited by Emma Dore-Horgan, Sjors Ligthart, Gerben Meynen and Philipp Kellmeyer (CUP, forthcoming)

'' with Patrick O'Callaghan in The Law and Ethics of Freedom of Thought: volume 2 (Palgrave, 2026)

':听' with Patrick O'Callaghan in聽The Cambridge Handbook of the Right to Freedom of Thought聽(CUP, 2025)

'' in聽The Cambridge Handbook of the Right to Freedom of Thought (CUP, 2025)

'聽with Cl谩udio de Oliveira Santos Colnago聽in聽The Cambridge Handbook of the Right to Freedom of Thought聽(CUP, 2025)

Published peer-reviewed work

'' with Patrick O'Callaghan et al [2023]聽The International Journal of Human Rights聽

鈥楳inistry of Defence Impunity: The Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Act 2021鈥� with Tanzil Chowdhury [2022] 2 Public Law 289-310

鈥樷�� with Patrick O鈥機allaghan, [2021] 8(2-3) European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance 112-145

鈥樷�� with Cl谩udio de Oliveira Santos Colnago, [2021] 8(2-3) European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance 245-270

鈥樷�� with Patrick O鈥機allaghan [2021] 8(2-3) European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance 107-111

颁辞-别诲颈迟别诲听107-270 with Patrick O'Callaghan聽聽

鈥楤ig data, small law: how gaps in regulation are affecting political campaigning methods鈥� [2019] 2 Public Law 361-378


Current Teaching

Module leader: Public Law

Link Tutor: LLM SQE pathway


Biography

Bethany is senior lecturer in law has been teaching Public Law since 2015. She has taught English Legal System, Employment Law and Criminal Law. Bethany is completing her PhD at the University of Oxford on the right to freedom of thought under article 9(1) ECHR.聽

Before joining academia, Bethany was a judicial review solicitor specialising in the Human Rights Act 1998. She was involved in the so-called 鈥業raq litigation鈥� which refers to hundreds of judicial review claims brought against the Secretary of Defence in regard to alleged human rights violations against Iraqi civilians and detainees during the Iraq war and occupation.聽

Publications